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Parallel import of medicinal products: regulatory update

European Pharmaceutical Review

This is due to the regulatory requirements imposed on parallel imported medicinal products in various Member States, the fulfilment of which often requires repackaging. Repackaging a medicinal product… means that the trademark is reapplied by an entity other than the trademark proprietor.”

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Why are clinical trials struggling with diversity?

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Within pharma and healthcare, where greater representation has been proven to lead to better health outcomes for all patients and the pharmaceutical companies developing medicines, change is also happening. As a Non-Clinical Assessor at MHRA he assessed non-clinical data packages for new and generic medicines.

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Halting Europe’s essential medicines manufacturing exodus

European Pharmaceutical Review

This left pharmaceutical companies in Europe with no European API supply source, and only a few suppliers in Asia. The recent update to the EC Urban Waste Directive, part of the environment package ‘Towards Zero Pollution,’ 4 has a disproportionate producer responsibility principle that will incur considerable extra costs.